Started to do some research on this. (1) I can't find a dedicated SharePoint instance that you can just buy. While that's a shame, I do have access to SharePoint 2010 via an MSDN iso. I'll need to download it and figure out how to install it remotely. Luckily download of data seems to be free.
(2) The base instance that seems right for us is this one: http://aws.amazon.com/windows/ . There's not much on its domain affinity, etc, however. It's going to be a bit of a learning curve clearly. (3) The instance size needed is determined by the SharePoint requirements. My .iso is 64-bit only. So at the minimum, we need this: Large Instance 7.5 GB of memory, 4 EC2 Compute Units (2 virtual cores with 2 EC2 Compute Units each), 850 GB of local instance storage, 64-bit platform (4) Pricing. For this instance size, with Windows, it starts at $0.48 an hour. The windows instances is Server 2008 R2, which is the right one, and comes with IIS for free and with what sounds like the MSDE version of SQL server. They state you can use the local SQL instance for free, but also say that if you want SQL Server it's $1.08 an hour. So I'm not quite sure I know what to get yet, and until I actually try it I am not going to know. My best guess is that this is going to take quite a bit of time to learn and assess, probably 10-15 hours conservatively. But I think it's well worth the cost of exploration. Karl On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Karl Wright <daddy...@gmail.com> wrote: > A colleague of mine who's been learning the "cloud" says that Amazon > EC2 may offer the simplest way to test ManifoldCF with proprietary > connectors. Specifically we'd want to start testing with SharePoint > 2010. The steps are as follows: > > (1) Set up an instance. Amazon probably already offers a SharePoint > installed instance. For other instances, we'd need to transfer the > iso data into the Amazon file system, which may be time consuming but > only need be done once. > > (2) Run the instance when needed. Amazon provides an API for this > which means we can even write tests that turn the instance on or off > during the test. This is probably also a good way to manage > concurrency, since if the instance is already up the test can wait > until it comes back down, etc. > > (3) Fees are 10-20 cents/hour, which is quite manageable, but somebody > will need to cough up a credit card that can be billed for this > (probably me). > > I'm going to start by testing our current SharePoint connector in > branches/CONNECTORS-221 by hand to be sure that the jar changes needed > by the CMIS connector did not have any unfortunate effects on Axis, > and I'll post if this seems like a viable plan. > > Thoughts? > Karl >
